ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the values in the life of organisations, is with values-rich voluntary initiatives. In any organisation, people involved may share values and have their own distinctive personal values. There may be different partners, with different interests and values. In Mexico, Marie Harder and fellow academics from the Values and Sustainability Research Group at the University of Brighton worked with a children’s environmental charity, the Echeri Children’s Group. Her work with the European urban design agency The Glass-House, helped them to surface four different circles of values are values that are not shared, values that are contested, values that are shared and important to us, and then the core values that are central to people. Values are in their nature contextual, Simon Burall explains. Different values can express themselves in very different organisational forms. Which values have the greatest resonance will vary across time, place and context.
